Seriousness Quotes

Seriousness Quote of the day

Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination.

Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.

Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

Seriousness is a disease of the ego

The worst drug of all is seriousness versus humor and pleasure!

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor - according to me - is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.

Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke

Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.

We need to alert women everywhere about the seriousness of heart disease.

The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.

I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it.

Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages more palatable.

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Since karate is a martial art, you must practice with the utmost seriousness from the very beginning.

Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

I understand the seriousness of concussions.

My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.

If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy.

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.

When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair.

For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness.

Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.